After years of bickering about movies on the radio, Doctor Simon Mayo has agreed to join me for a televisual feast of Wittertainment in the shape of 'The Screening Room'. Recorded for the Culture Show, this mini series will be appearing on your televisions and iPlayers next month. Here's a little behind the scenes preview.
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Over the weekend, Mark joined Simon Mayo and a live audience at the Edinburgh International Film
Festival, with guests including Jimi Mistry, Alan Cumming, Ian Hart, Andrew McDonald,
Duncan Jones and Bill Forsyth.
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Great films, great people and moderate weather are all you need for a happy film festival and this year's EIFF scored highly on all of the above counts. I also got to share a stage with Sam Mendes and if you tuned into Five Live last week you'll know we did the Friday Simon Mayo show live too. Here's a little taster before we put up the edited highlights later on...
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In your replies to my review of Terminator Salvation some of you felt my analysis was compromised. You were all wrong. I see everything.
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Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers, Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Armageddon, The Rock, Pearl Harbor... in a way, this is a review of all of Michael Bay's work.
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The powers that be have had a look at Kermode Uncut and elected to spruce us up a bit. I must say I'm jolly delighted and here is a short introduction to the important changes that will affect you the blogging viewer.
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Horror movies Child's Play, Severance, the Evil Dead, video games such as Grand Theft Auto, and even old action movies like Die Hard and the Towering Inferno can be identified as potential triggers for properly anti-social behaviour and worse... at least according to your blogs this week they all can.
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The Last House On The Left, a remake of the controversial 1972 horror movie of the same name.
Also watch previous blog entry
The Last House on the Left but one.
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With my band The Dodge Brothers I recently got to play along to a live screening of a silent movie. With us was Neil Brand, whose mellifluous skills as a silent movie accompanist have been widely celebrated by Paul Merton among others, and a jolly and rather revelatory time was had by all.
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My recent suggestion that Audrey Tautou may not be the greatest actress France has ever produced (if not, indeed, the least), was met with a wall of blogger chivalry that revealed just how deep the cordial of entente continues to run in the hearts of so many of you, so deep in fact that even her work in Amelie escapes censure...
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Mark thinks the Jonas Brothers' 3D Concert Experience is a great film for kids, give or take a few mixed metaphors.
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